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Learn how the UNESCO Chair in Numerical Methods spearheads frontier innovation in the Global South
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With nine research clusters, three innovation units, and a global network with deep local roots, the CIMNE community is driving constant progress. Stay updated on scientific breakthroughs, international projects, and corporate developments shaping the future of engineering.
With nine research clusters, three innovation units, and a global network with deep local roots, the CIMNE community is driving constant progress. Stay updated on scientific breakthroughs, international projects, and corporate developments shaping the future of engineering.
The International Centre for Numerical Methods in Engineering (CIMNE) has launched DAMSHAI (Dam Structural Health Monitoring and Safety Assessment with an AI Agent), a three-year research project that will explore the application of artificial intelligence to critical...
The persistent rainfall that fell in Catalonia in January 202 led to tragic situations, such as the Gelida rail accident caused by the collapse of a retaining wall, as well as landslides in other parts of the commuter network. We speak with Dr Núria M. Pinyol, a...
On Tuesday, 27 January 2026, in Gelida, Catalonia, a commuter train collided with a retaining wall that is believed to have come loose due to heavy rain. The accident resulted in one fatality, a trainee driver, and 37 people were injured. As a result of the incident,...
The International Centre for Numerical Methods in Engineering (CIMNE) and Singular Aircraft have signed a letter of intent framing strategic collaboration in research, development and innovation in the aeronautical field. The document, signed on Tuesday, aims to...
Professor Michele Chiumenti and Professor Marino Arroyo have been awarded grants in the 2025 Academia Excellence programme, formerly known as ICREA Academia, by the Government of Catalonia. The programme, which selected 50 faculty members from the Catalan university...
The Minister of Business and Labour, the Honorable Mr. Miquel Sàmper i Rodríguez, together with the Director General for Industry, Mr. Xavier Roca Ramón, have visited this week the headquarters of the International Centre for Numerical Methods in Engineering (CIMNE)...
November 4-6, 2025 | Fira Gran Via, Barcelona CIMNE's Stand: Hall 3, D50 Tomorrow Mobility: Hall 3, S53 The International Centre for Numerical Methods in Engineering (CIMNE) features innovative simulation and smart solutions in this year's edition of the Smart City...
The 51st Annual Meeting of the Spanish Nuclear Society (SNE), held in Cáceres, reaffirmed itself as the key gathering of the nuclear sector in Spain. With 694 participants, 248 papers, 42 technical sessions, 23 exhibitors, and 31 sponsors and collaborators, the...
The International Centre for Numerical Methods in Engineering (CIMNE) yesterday received a high-level delegation from the AVIC Shenyang Aircraft Design and Research Institute, one of China's leading aerospace research organizations. The visit brought together 24...
El clúster de Simulació de sòlids i fluids per a processos industrials del CIMNE ha participat en un estudi que proposa un mètode numèric per simular la impressió 3D d’estructures de formigó i les capes que el conformen. Aquest model és una eina valuosa per...
Temporary storage of radioactive waste prior to deep geological disposal. Electricity today accounts for nearly 40% of global greenhouse gas emissions, according to the International Energy Agency (IEA). Countries such as France, Sweden, Finland and Canada have...
The ResilMob project, a pioneering initiative to bolster the resilience of geostructures in Catalonia’s Road network, is yielding its first results through a beta system placed in the mountainside of Barcelona’s Montjuïc Mountain, opposite the Ronda...
The FIBRE4YARDS project, led by Xavier Martínez Garcia, a professor at the Faculty of Nautical Studies of Barcelona (FNB) at the UPC and researcher at the International Centre for Numerical Methods in Engineering (CIMNE), has been awarded the prestigious JEC...
The BIOntier research project, aimed at advancing sustainable, circular biocomposites with high-performance features for multi-sector applications, officially kicked off this week with a working meeting at the FORTH research centre in Heraklion, Crete, Greece. The...
Researchers at CIMNE's Machine Learning in Civil Engineering Research Group and the Flumen Institute have developed a new machine-learning based tool to classify off-stream reservoirs based on their potential risk of rupture. The work, carried out as part of the...
Dr. Pere-Andreu Ubach, from the Civil and Environmental Engineering research group at CIMNE, this week defended the need to validate the effectiveness of inflatable breakwaters to minimize coastline erosion and promote the recovery of seagrass meadows. Speaking for...
Researchers from the Center for Ecological Research and Forestry Applications (CREAF), the International Centre for Numerical Methods in Engineering (CIMNE) and other Catalan and Spanish institutions have developed a novel methodology to identify threats to...
Researchers from the Machine Learning in Civil Engineering group at CIMNE have developed a new machine-learning based software to predict structural behaviour of dams, allowing for enhanced decision-making and minimizing safety risks of these critical infrastructures....
Doctor Juan Marcelo Gimenez, from the Structural Mechanics research group at CIMNE, has unveiled a new methodology to improve simulation of the powder coating process, an eco-friendly finishing technique used across various industries to create a hard finish...
A group of researchers from the International Centre of Numerical Methods in Engineering (CIMNE) have proposed a new methodology for improving Machine Learning-based model forecasting of gound-level ozone (O3), a pollutant of photochemical origin that...
The SuPreAM research project, which aims to optimise manufacturing processes in the steel industrial sector, held its 1st General Assembly at the DRT Rapid facilities in Leiria, Portugal, last December. Professors Josep Maria Carbonell and Fernando Rastellini, from...
The FIBRE4YARDS project, which aims to maintain Europe's global leadership in shipbuilding and ship maintenance through advanced and innovative fibre-reinforced polymer (FRP) manufacturing technologies, draw to a close with a final dissemination event in Nantes,...
A group of four CIMNE researchers, led by Dr. Michele Chiumenti as senior author, have developed a new Mechanism-Based (MB) orthotropic damage criterion for Fused Filament Fabrication (FFF), a popular and affordable 3D printing technology of Additive Manufacturing...
SimTwins, a collaborative initiative developed by CIMNE to improve the future of industries through digital twins, has won the first prize in the Barcelona Supercomputing Center (BSC) Innovation Journey award. The prize, presented yesterday to Sebastian Ares,...
A group of international researchers, led by CIMNE director Prof. Javier Bonet as senior author, has presented a series of new refined schemes to improve the accuracy and stability of the updated Lagrangian SPH (ULSPH) method for structural modelling in a scientific...
Researchers from the Bio-medical Engineering Research Group at the International Centre for Numerical Methods in Engineering (CIMNE) have proposed a special type of Finite Element (FE) technology in a new paper entitled Empirical Interscale Finite Element Method...
Dr. Gabriel Barbat has been awarded a UPC 2023 Special Doctoral Award in the category of Civil and Environmental Engineering for his thesis "Mixed finite elements with independent strain interpolation for isotropic and orthotropic damage", developed at the CIMNE...
CIMNE participates in the SuPreAM partnership. This is an EU-funded project to develop and improve the performance and capabilities of a predictive simulation model of finishing operations in steel Additive Manufacturing (AM). It integrates the influence of steels,...
A publication co-authored by CIMNE researcher Fernando Salazar “CALA: Mejora de la seguridad hidrológica” (CALA: Improvement of the Hydrologic security) on the magazine Revista de Obras Públicas. The article explains the results of a...
On 18 December, KRO-NCRV, a public television and radio organization in the Netherlands, broadcasted the investigation documentary about the Brumadinho dam failure titled "The deadly dam burst" via Pointer, a new digital platform for acclaimed Dutch data...
From 9 to 10 November 2022, the premises of Deltares in Delft (The Netherlands) hosted a new edition of the Kratos Multiphysics Workshop. The event was held within the Delft Software Days. Deltares was the venue for more than 60 users and developers of...
A commission chaired by the president of SEMNI Elías Cueto has unanimously deliberated that the Best Thesis of the Year 2021 is the one defended by David Codony. Currently Severo Ochoa Post Doc Trainee at the Mechanics of Electroactive Materials research team,...
On January 25, 2019, a mining waste dam of the company Vale SA suddenly collapsed, generating a tsunami of millions of cubic meters of water and toxic mud over the region. It is the biggest environmental disaster in the history of Brazil and 270 people lost their...
The 14th World Congress in Computational Mechanics & ECCOMAS Congress took from January 11th to 15th, 2021. The Opening Session was introduced by the presidents of both scientific societies organizers of the event, Prof. Antonio Huerta (IACM) and Michał Kleiber...